Transcript: Why Doing Your Fitness Publicly Might Be the Only Thing That Actually Keeps You Going
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Ashley opens up about her strong fear of failure, explaining how doing her fitness journey publicly — through daily accountability posts — is both what keeps her showing up and what makes rest days feel guilt-ridden.
The truth is one of my biggest fears is failure.
What's up you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here.
Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast
where I hope to inspire you to move your body
more. I want to talk about failure and specifically
failure in fitness. And the reason I want to
talk about that is because I have a very strong
fear of failure. And I think it's because I am
doing this so publicly. I am working on my fitness
journey so publicly. And I want to talk about
that because it's something that I don't think
enough people in fitness discuss, and that is
that they're afraid of failing. I told you guys
from the beginning that my whole goal was to
be as transparent as possible about what I'm
going through. And the reason that I started
doing the daily accountability posts whenever
I first got started is because I knew that if
I was doing it publicly, I'd be that much more
likely to continue showing up. And so that became
kind of an addiction of, you know, the excitement
of when I could post like, hey, I did these classes
today. This is what I have planned for the week
and things like that. And it was. funny because
any day that I didn't post like right after class
or if I posted too late in the day I would start
getting messages like hey did you work out today
and so I really enjoyed the fact that I was doing
these accountability posts because well it kept
me accountable and that's something that means
a lot to me because whenever I know that people
are watching it makes me that much more likely
to show up and so the whole fear of failure thing
is still very strong in me especially since starting
this podcast It scares the hell out of me to
think of any day that I'm not moving, especially
when like I really physically can't. Those days
I feel hella guilty. And I've been trying to
work through that and handle it, you know, as
best I can, because let's face it, there are
some days that that I cannot physically move.
Those are the days I feel so incredibly guilty
because I have become somewhat known as the more
movement, please, girl. And so when the more
movement, please, girl is not moving, it's like,
well, what's happening? What's going on? And
so that's definitely a big a big driver to help
me with continuing to work out, which is good.
But, you know, it's just it's one of those things
where I get scared that if I'm not moving enough
that, well, I'm failing. I'm grateful that. I
have this platform because it is helping me to
stay accountable. But I do get scared that like
what happens if I start gaining weight or if
I, you know, start getting weaker or if something
happens that I'm no longer having upward momentum
that that scares me. And but again, it's a good
thing in the sense that it's keeping me accountable.
It's keeping me wanting to keep moving. And so
I kind of wanted to share this episode because
I wanted to suggest to you that if you are on
Ashley floats the idea of a Facebook group focused purely on movement check-ins, inviting listeners to sign up and help shape whether it becomes a real thing.
a fitness journey, do it publicly. You know,
it's, it's a great way. to make sure that you
keep moving. If you start doing daily accountability
posts, then that will help you to keep moving.
And so one of the things that I started to try
to do for a little bit, but it didn't really
pan out very well, but I still want to do it,
was I wanted to do a monthly or weekly accountability
update with folks just to check in with them
and see how their movement is going. So what
I want to know is, would you guys be interested
in that? Would you be down to be part of a community
where we can talk about fitness and talk about
how things are going and whether or not you're
moving and maybe even post your daily accountability
update in the group? hit me up at famousashleygrant
.com backslash group. And what I'll do is if
you guys are interested, I'll put together like
a Facebook group and we could do check -ins with
each other and just see how things are going.
And I don't want it to be one of those like toxic
groups where we start talking about, oh, this
is what I ate today. I don't want to do that.
I strictly want it to be about movement and whether
or not you moved that day. So if you're up for
that, I would love to hear from y 'all. Like
I said, head to famousashleygrant .com backslash
group. And there's a form there that, Basically,
you can, well, join the group. And if you guys
are into it, we'll play with it and see what
happens with it. And if it goes well, we'll keep
doing it. And if not, then we'll stop. And yeah,
I think that'd be fun to just check in with you
guys and see how things are going. Because I
said before, and I'll say it again, I don't want
this to just be about me. I want it to be a movement
of movement. And I want to... talk with y 'all
and see how things are going and see if you're
moving your body daily. And I just want to have
some fun with this. So head over to famousashleygrant
.com backslash group. Let me know what you think.
And onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you
worked out today?